The U.S. Soccer Federation reportedly gave an important blessing to the North American Soccer League, where the San Antonio Scorpions will play their inaugural season this spring. According to the website insidemnsoccer.com, the USSF has again provisionally sanctioned NASL to run the sport’s second-division tier in the United States next year.

The move, voted on during a monthly board meeting in Los Angeles, came after the NASL submitted its annual report to the USSF. The league also operated under provisional sanctioning in 2011, but only after satisfying USSF concerns about financial requirements being met.